How to Push Through When Everything Feels Hard

Even the simplest tasks feel like moving mountains today. Opening your emails requires enormous willpower, and each decision, no matter how small, seems to drain what little energy you have left. The weight of every action feels magnified.

You're exhausted from the effort of just showing up.

Have you recently felt that everything at work was an effort?

This overwhelming sense of effort isn't just fatigue – it's a sign your psychological wellbeing needs attention. When every task feels like climbing a mountain, it can affect both your work performance and your sense of capability.

Understanding Psychological Wellbeing

When everything requires maximum effort, even minor tasks can feel insurmountable. While some days naturally feel harder than others, persistent struggle with routine tasks signals a need to restore your psychological resources.

When your psychological wellbeing is balanced, you can tackle tasks with appropriate energy.

However, when everything feels too hard, you need strategies to lighten the load and rebuild your strength.

Why It Matters

Here's why this overwhelming sense of effort needs attention:

• It can turn manageable tasks into exhausting challenges
• It often leads to falling behind as simple actions take excessive energy
• It may create a cycle of decreased confidence as tasks pile up

But you don't have to remain stuck in this state of struggle. There are ways to make the load feel lighter.

Taking Action

1. Break It Down

Divide tasks into the smallest possible steps, celebrating each tiny completion as a victory worth noting.

2. Start Small

Begin each day with one achievable task to build momentum, using that success to fuel your next action.

3. Pace Yourself

Structure your day to alternate between harder and easier tasks, allowing recovery time between challenging activities.

Finding Your Strength

When everything feels like pushing a boulder uphill, each workday can seem endless. Yet managing this overwhelming effort isn't just about getting through today – it's about rebuilding your capacity for easier movement forward.

By using MOOD.ai to track how you feel each day at work, you can identify when tasks become unnecessarily difficult and adjust your approach accordingly.

Your energy matters, and finding ways to make tasks manageable helps restore your sense of capability and confidence.